Child Labour in Hotel, Restaurantand Tea Shopof Pyuthan Municipality,Pyuthan District

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ABSTRACT A thesis conducted inChild Labour in Small Hotel,Restaurant and Teashop of PyuthanMunicipality Pyuthan District. The main objectives of the study to find out the socioeconomic condition of the child labours in small hotels , restaurant and tea shop This studyon child labours in small hotel restaurant and tea shops is the outcome of field surveyconducted in words of Pyuthan municipality of Pyuthan district. The present study covers 35child labours of hotel and restaurant & tea shops. The small hotel, restaurant & tea shop workis one of the most visible and hazardous forms of child lassoer. Both qualitative andquantitative data home been used in this study taking 35 respondents (child labour) bypurposive sampling procedure. About 40% belonged to age group between below 12 years and 60 percent of the totalchildren belong to below 13 to 15 only. So, the maximum number of child labours was fromage group13 to 15 years. 14.28% female child labours working in sampled hotel andrestaurantsand 85.71 percent were boys. 35 respondents come from various ethnic/ castegroup. Among these are Thapa, Magar, Gurung, Pun Magar, Bista, Kshetri, Bishwokarma,Nepali, GhartiMagar, Kumal, Sunar, etc. They were bound to work because of poverty. Outof the total respondents 20 percent of them left their house due to hard life in the village. Inpercent of the children migrate from their house due to ill treatment by their parents. 20percent of child labours family income were sufficient for survival, 28.57 percent childlabour's family income just sufficient for survival. Lack of economic opportunities, low agriculture productivity, lack of alternative incomesources, hard life, illiteracy,death of parents and poverty were the major push factors forthese ethnic groups to leave their ancestral place and join in the hotels and restaurants fortheir survival.